Alan Winfield's Web Log

About 5 years ago we proposed that all robots should be fitted with the robot equivalent of an aircraft Flight Data Recorder to continuously...

In part 2 a few weeks ago I outlined  a Python implementation of the ethical black box. I described the key data structure - a dictionary wh...

Followers of this blog will know that I have been working for some years on simulation-based internal models - demonstrating their potentia...

Readers of this blog will know that I've become very excited by the potential of robots with simulation-based internal models in recent...

Our latest paper from the Artificial Culture project has just been published:  On the Evolution of Behaviors through Embodied Imitation . ...

Several weeks ago I wrote about our work on robots with internal models : robots with a simulation of themselves and their environment insi...

So. We've been busy in the lab the last few months. Really exciting. Let me explain. For a couple of years I've been thinking abou...

Broadly speaking there are two kinds of learning: individual learning and social learning. Individual learning means learning something enti...

About 6 years ago the late amazing Richard Gregory said to me, with a twinkle in his eye, "when your robots start telling each other s...

Just spent an awesomely busy weekend at the Science Museum, demonstrating Swarm Robotics. We were here as part of the Robotville exhibition ...

My PhD student Paul has started a new series of experiments in embodied evolution in the swarm robotics lab. Here's a picture showing h...

In June I blogged about Nicolas Bredeche and Jean-Marc Montanier working with us in the lab to transfer their environment-driven distribut...

It's now over two years since I first blogged about our Linux-enhanced e-puck , designed by my colleague Dr Wenguo Liu . Since then, th...